1937] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, COLONY OF BRITISH GUIANA 
Basic Legislation 
[Plant Diseases and Pests (Prevention) Ordinance, No. 37, of Dee. 28, 11)3")] 
This ordinance empowers the governor in council, by order, to prohibit or 
prescribe the conditions for the importation or exportation of any seeds, plants, 
or any description of earth or soil, or any article packed therewith, or any 
l)ackake, covering, or thing which are likely to be a means of introducing into 
or transmitting from the colony any disease or pest from or to any country 
<jr place. 
DEFINITIONS 
Article 2 of the ordinance includes the following definitions : 
"Disease" means any disease affecting plants caused by or consisting in the 
presence of any pathogenic animal or vegetable organism which the governor 
in council may by order declare to be a disease under this ordinance. 
"Pest" means any parasitic, epiphytic, or other animal or vegetable organism, 
and also any insect or other invertebrate animal affecting or nijurious to 
plants, which the governor in council may by order declare to be a pest under 
tills ordinance. 
'"Plant" means any tree, shrub, or herb, and includes the fruit or otlier 
product of any tree, shrub, or herb, and the roots, trunks, steins, branches, 
fruits, leaves, or other parts thereof severed from any tree, shrub, or herb, 
including emptied pods or husks. 
Summary 
importation prohibited 
Cacao plants and seedfi (Theohronia cacao L. ), other than cured cacao front 
Surinam: Importation prohibited, to prevent the introduction of witches'-broom 
{ M(ira.s)itias pcruiciosuts Siahel). (Proclamation of Nov. 6, 19(13.) 
Para rubber plants, stumps, or cuttings thereof {Hcvea spp. ) from Ceylon, 
Straits Settlements, IVlalay States, Java, Surinam, and West Indies: Importa- 
tion in earth or soil prohibitei!. to prevent the introduction of certain root-rot 
diseases. (Order of Apr. 12. 1911.) 
Fruits (except plantains (Mnsa spp.), nuts, and dried, canned, candied and 
other preserved fruits), and vegetables (except onions, Irish potatoes, and 
canned or preserved vegetables) : Importation prohibited from all countries 
except the British Isles, Canada, the British West Indies (not including the 
Bahamas and Bermuda), and the United States, to prevent the introduction of 
the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ccratitift capita fa Wied. ). Order in Council No. 
145 of May 19, 1930, as amended by that gazetted may 14, 1932.) 
Sugarcanes {^acchanini officinannii L.) and plants or parts thereof: Impor- 
tation prohibited, to prevent the introduction of the rind disease (Mchiuconium 
y-acchari Mass.), root disease {Maras-mi iis sacchari Walker), sereh. leaf disease 
(cause unknown), the giant moth borer, mealybug, wood ants, beetle?^, locusts, 
froghoppers, canefly, and other injurious pests and diseases of sugarcane. (Or- 
(ier No. 551, Apr. 1986.) 
Plants of grasses of any kind : Importation ]}rohibited. to prevent the in- 
troduction of injurious pests and diseases of such plants. ( Order No. 551, Apr. 
2, 1936.) 
Earth or soil, including leaf mold, or wrappings, cases, packages, or other 
coverings that contain or have contained earth or soil or any article or 
material packed with earth or soil: Importatiou prohibited, to i)revent the 
introduction of injurious pests and disea.^es. (Order No. 551. Apr. 2. 1936.) 
l>ananas and plantain suckers {Mii.sa spp.) : Imi)ortation without the written 
authorization of the Director of Agriculture prohibited, to prevent the intro- 
duction of Panama wilt disease (Fusarium cuhou^e E. F. Sm.), and the so- 
called Surinam disease. (Order No. 551, Apr. 2, 1936 ) 
IMPORTATION RESTRICTED 
Para rubber plants, stumps, or cuttings thereof (Hcvca spp.) from Ceylon, 
Straits Settlements, Malay States, Java, Surinam, Brazil, and West Indies: 
Must be free from soil and are subject to inspection on arrival, with disposal 
according to findings. (Order of Apr. 12, 1911.) 
